Having trouble logging in to an appliance

Submitted by los on Fri, 2009/05/01 - 16:32

I just downloaded and installed the Wordpress appliance, and fired it up for the first time. I get a prompt: "wordpress login:" to which I respond with the information from the appliance's page (http://www.turnkeylinux.org/appliances/wordpress)

Wordpress:

username admin, password turnkey
username editor, password turnkey

But when I try either of these, the response is: "Login incorrect"

What to do? Has the information changed?

Thanks!

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I can't reproduce this

Liraz Siri - Fri, 2009/05/01 - 18:27

I can't reproduce the problem you are describing on my end and nobody else has reported this problem so I suspect there may be something about your environment that is interfering with the login process.

This sounds silly, but are you sure that you (or someone else) didn't change the passwords? Try installing again. Also, more information on your environment might help me guess what could be going wrong. Installation type (physical machine or virtual machine and what type), browser, browser extensions, etc.

Some details...

- Fri, 2009/05/01 - 20:55

Here's what I did:

Wasted half my life as a Windows developer/evangelist
Downloaded the WordPress appliance from your site
Downloaded VirtualBox from Sun
Configured and started up the VM
When startup was done, I ended up in a configuration screen. I looked at the settings, everything looked fine, so I quit.
Then came the wordpress login prompt, and my issue.
That's it! Brand new install as of this morning. I'm stumped!

PS - as number 1. above indicates, I am a n00b. Thanks for your help!

WordPress login or Ubuntu login?

- Sat, 2009/05/02 - 04:27

I did exactly the same only with drupal.

If you quit the "config" dialog (your point 5) you not in WordPress, you are in Ubuntu. The Ubuntu asks for user and password. The confusing point is that I names the instance of the VB drupal6 and so I see the command line from Ubuntu like:

drupal6 login: _

I tought also it`s the drupal login but was not. (You I know how the drupal login looks like but due to my noob relation to this appliance I was not shure).

If you also used a "taking" name like "wordpress" for you VirtualBox it would look like:

wordpress login: _

So use "root" as user and the password you keyed in during the install of the appliance.

Is only a guess while I had the same confusion first hand.

Thank you

- Sat, 2009/05/02 - 05:15

Thanks - that is exactly what the problem was! Now if only I knew what to do at the command prompt. Time to hit the books...

Up and running

- Sat, 2009/05/02 - 06:11

I configured my VirtualBox for host-only networking, fired up the appliance, and obtained the url to manage it by. Then connected via Firefox browser and wow! What a great thing this is! Thanks again...

Trying to figure out how to avoid confusing newbies

Liraz Siri - Sat, 2009/05/02 - 07:26

Delighted that you got it working with Bruno's help! As a Linux guy it can be hard to anticipate how newcomers to Linux might get confused (e.g., having never seen something like a command prompt before). I can understand your confusion. We'd like to work on screencasts to help prevent this kind of stuff in the future.

The other day I found a charming meta-screencast by Linux Journal - How to Make a Linux Screencast.

Change the default hostname?

Daniel Serodio - Tue, 2009/09/15 - 22:04

What about changing the default hostname to foo-vm or similar?

Same issue

Guest - Thu, 2009/09/10 - 20:27

I'm having the same issue as the original post describes. The appliance is great when using DHCP, it's when assigning it a static IP manually that you get dropped to the "wordpress login:" prompt...and oddly the system does not accept the correct login/password. Any ideas? I had intended to assign the appliance its own IP...

update to login problem

Guest - Thu, 2009/09/10 - 22:47

Ok, I figured part out. I was hitting "Alt+A" thinking that was "accept" when setting the ip manually, and it was dropping me out of the config console to a prompt. All you have to do is hit enter. So now I have manual IP working for WP, but I still can't login if I drop out of the console. It's driving me a bit nuts. I'm trying to login as root, but I've also tried admin. I've reinstalled 4 times now, using different passwords, even using very simple passwords, and no joy. Any ideas?

login problem.

Guest - Thu, 2009/09/10 - 23:11

Ok, it was all me, I admit it. I don't know how I typo'd on each of those installs, but I must have, because it's all working as it should now. My apologies.

confconsole exiting with ALT+a

Alon Swartz - Fri, 2009/09/11 - 08:23

Glad you got sorted out.

I cannot reproduce the issue with the confconsole exiting on ALT+a. When I do the key sequence it produces the dialog "Do you really want to quit". This was implemented back in late december and therefore should be included in the wordpress release.

Could you confirm that the confirmation dialog is not produced. Is an error displayed?
You can relaunch the confconsole by typing confconsole

ALT+a drop to shell

Guest - Fri, 2009/09/11 - 18:57

While I'm 90% sure I was simply dropping straight to a prompt, trying it this morning gave me the exit confirmation dialog, so...

Certain things, like the login problems I had probably were exacerbated by the fact the appliance is running on under VMWARE on a Windows box which I'm remoting into from a Mac, and sometimes caps lock gets stuck without visual representation / things get screwy in the translation. So it could be that behavior of the appliance may be influenced by all those steps going on in my setup.

Anyway, thanks for all the work on this appliance; it's a great benefit to the computing public!

Drupal Appliance

Guest - Tue, 2009/11/03 - 23:15

Hello, I am a "newbie" and, as such, I would like to know where I can find installation instructions for the Drupal Appliance. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Best,

Christopher Lee

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